BAY CITY, MI — A 24-year-old Hampton Township man is facing five criminal charges after police allege he attacked and threatened to kill his wife and father.

About 9:05 p.m. on May 7, officers responded to a home in Saginaw Bay Estates in Hampton Township in response to a domestic situation. They arrived to find Daniel L. Gage II, 47, outside his home, saying his son needed to go to jail for assaulting him and his wife, Shelby Gage, 26. Officers heard a child crying inside and decided to check on it, court records show.

At the door, Daniel L. Gage III refused to let officers inside. The officers entered anyway, took Gage III down and put him in handcuffs, then took him to a patrol vehicle.

The elder Daniel Gage told officers his son and daughter-in-law were arguing in a bedroom and he heard his son say, “I’m going to kill you, (expletive).” The father entered the room and saw his son on top of Shelby Gage, he told police. The father pinched his son on the back and he got off his wife, only to come at his dad, Daniel Gage II told police.

“He threw me to the ground,” the dad told police. “He started hitting me in the head and face. He was saying he was going to kill me.”

Eventually, the two separated and Daniel Gage II went to a neighbor’s residence to call 911.

Shelby Gage was not in the home when police arrived. They found her at a nearby residence, crying and visibly upset, according to police reports.

She told officers she had been arguing with her husband throughout the day and that he started calling her names. She slapped him in the face and he then grabbed her throat and choked her to the point she couldn’t breathe, she said.

When Daniel Gage III stopped, his father insulted him for hitting a woman, Shelby Gage said. She also called her husband’s masculinity into question, at which point he attacked and choked her two more times, according to police reports. He also broke her eyeglasses, bit her hand and dug his elbow into one of her eye sockets, she told police.

Daniel Gage III would not let his wife leave through the door, so she left through a window and made her way to the nearby residence, court records show.

The couple’s son, about a year and a half old, was present, according to police reports.

Daniel Gage III told police that his dad and wife were on top of him and beating him up, court records show.

Bay County District Judge Dawn A. Klida on Thursday, May 8, arraigned Gage on two counts of domestic violence and single counts of assault by strangulation, malicious destruction of property less than $200 and assaulting, resisting or obstructing police.

Klida set his bond at $15,000 cash-surety and ordered him to appear for a preliminary examination at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, May 21.